Safiya Sinclair

Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of Cannibal, and winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award in Literature, and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Sinclair’s other honors include a Pushcart Prize, fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foun­dation, and the Elizabeth George Foundation. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, The Nation, and elsewhere. Sinclair is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Arizona State University. Her memoir, How to Say Babylon, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.